Comment

I’ve previously posted on the recent report on inequality by the government-sponsored National Equality Panel (NEP). The report reworks a graph on income inequality to give a more favourable impression of trends. A large portion of total income inequality is also left unexplained by the report. This is so-called ‘residual inequality’.

It must have been a truly terrifying ordeal. For 90 minutes in Edlington in April 2009 two young boys aged nine and eleven were subjected to a sustained and horrific attack by two other boys of the same age. The attackers had done the same only a week earlier.

Richard Garside assesses trends in law and order spending. He argues that the United Kingdom's overreliance on criminal justice regulation is the result of a failure to address social distress and dysfunction in other, more inclusive, ways.

In this edited transcript of David Stuckler's introduction given at the 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Gallery in July 2009 as part of the What is crime? project, he discusses what the public health effects of the current recession might be

Richard Garside wrote a piece for Community Care magazine arguing that recent government reforms are making it much more difficult for voluntary and community organisations to remain true to their values and retain their independence.